So what are your thoughts on the latest going-ons in the world of JavaScript? Have you started doing much exploration of the ES6 features, and do you feel that you are drowning in too many tools?

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The "single var pattern" article is ignoring an alternative way to define variables using a single var that is closer to how JavaScript actually works than either of the variants the article discusses: